11-17 June - Holiday at Korea (Day 1 & 2)

Mummy left for Korea on 4 Jun for work and then meet Kaelyn and daddy on 12 June for holiday.  Daddy & Kaelyn left Singapore on 11th night by Asiana Airlines whilst mummy checked herself into the jimjibang on the 11th night in Incheon Airport so as to meet them by 6 am on 12th June.  As we have been to the East side twice, we have hence opted to travel to the West.

On the first day of arrival, we started our tour with a bullet train experience from Seoul to Daejeon.

Our coach took our luggages and travel all the way to Daejeon to meet us.  This will take about 3 hrs by road vs 45 mins by bullet train. 

Next, the tour guide Uncle John brought us for lunch.  He said this is the most authentic bibimbap - those found in Seoul are not so original already. 

Seriously the food was so-so only - individual family have to top up if we want to have meat. 

About 20 mins walk from our lunch venue is the Maisan (马耳山).  As the name suggest, the mountain looks like 2 horses' ears from far.  Within the mountain, once live an old monk who spent his entire life stacking pieces of stones and rocks as a symbolic prayer for North and South to be unified one day.  He spent more than 30 years building stone pagodas of all shapes and sizes all  without the use of mortar... quite amazing..

Our hotel was just right in front of the Jeonju Hanok Village.  This is the way to preserve the traditional  Korean 'Hanok' houses.  While the rest of the city has been modernised, this village, that retains over 800 traditional Korean 'hanok' houses, aims to retain its historical charms and traditions.

View from our hotel room

In the olden days, if you have a lot of these clay pots signifies the richer the family is..

As usual, the table are full of colourful dishes.  Here's our first dinner at Korea

Day 2 - we are heading down South - Today we're spending 1 full day at Yeosu Expo

- Here's Yeony (left) and Suny

Inside Singapore Pavilion (left) and Australia Pavilion (right)

- see the Super Tree behind us? 

Enjoying the seamless screen that integrates the walls and ceilings of the exhibition hall. Videos are displayed on the world’s largest dome screen... awesome!!

 A large scale outdoor performance... Kaelyn and the main lead!

Outside a corporate pavillion... 

We didn't get to see a lot of pavillion as the queues are unbelievably long.. There were a lot of activities outside the pavillions that kept us entertained!